Comments on Never Trust a Fat Cook, Either

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That's why I mix my vodkas with cranberry juice—it's delicious and prevents UTIs!

I love gin and tonic but I've known for a long time that the quinine in tonic water is not good in large doses.

My grandmother had told me years and years ago that they used to give quinine to girls who got pregnant out of wedlock quinine to cause a miscarriage.

That was very fun to read and I will be buying that book.

Is quinine still used against malaria? I never herad of it making people fat.

Two fucking pints a day! Holy shit. Two pints of any booze other than beer can't be good for you, particularly two pints of gin. Can we read about her liver?

Gin is the drink of choice for malarial sufferers - which kills a lot more people than have problems with this "fat" disease.

I think this claim is bogus. My dear mother has been drinking a gin & tonic every day for 40 years, and as far as I know, her adrenal gland is still functioning normally.

Mind you, mum drinks a single gin & tonic a day, not two pints of gin a day. I'm surprised this woman didn't drown herself drinking that much. Holy crap!

Two pints of gin? Someone doesn't know jack about moderation; no wonder she's heavy.

SDA:

If she was following a standard mix ratio of say 2 oz. gin to 5 oz. tonic, she would have been sucking down more than a half gallon of tonic water per day. The FDA limits the amount of quinine in commercial tonics to about 80 - 83 mg per liter, which is about 1/2 the standard daily medicinal dosage.

Keep in mind, even in cases of severe malaria, the normal treatment regimen using quinine would only be about one week - this woman was dosing at essentially full-strength for more than 600 consecutive weeks.

@5: Yes quinine is still used to treat malaria, although it is no longer the frontline treatment because some strains of malaria are resistant to it.
It was made originally from the bark of the cinchona tree and is very bitter. Tonic water was originally developed to provide a way to take your daily dose in a more pleasant manner. It is possible to take to muck by drinking it. I agree with the other posters that the large amount of alcohol is the actual source of her obesity. Her liver must look like a burnt shoe.

2FL was bomb.